Avocado Plant

This is my Avocado plant. Has a strong root on it, and obviously needs potting. What soil should I use? Loads of different suggestions on the web, all I have is normal compost and orchid compost.

I also read something about pinching out its leaves?

 

I'd go for normal compost.
The reason for pinching out the tip is to try to get the plant to branch and not get leggy, I'm sure you can see yours is very tall without many leaves lower down.
I'd move it to stronger light if you can, but acclimatise it to full sun very slowly, as it might burn.

 

Mine is in a pot here with normal compost and I feed it when I think of it ... it is 5-6 years old now done from a stone and should fruit this next year .. if I beat the trunk (this is NOT a joke).

As Pete said, you probably need stronger light there ... I have to have mine in the shade here which is under my humongous (10 meter tall) almond tree ... .... as they do not like strong sunlight, certainly nothing above 33c which I have already gone to 39c this summer.

Good luck with yours.

 

All my avocadoes have shot up, but last year's one isn't doing anything, in fact the growing tip seems dead, thought the rest of it is okay. It's sitting on my kitchen window, which is south westerly facing. Could that be stopping it from growing then because of the light, though it started really well last summer.

Thanks, Liz

 

I'm sorry, but I did grow one of these a long time ago, and apart from a talking point and just for self satisfaction its not a plant I would bother with again.

Its leggy and ungainly and a totally unsuitable pot plant, in the UK.

And I've grown some miserable unsuitable pot plants over the years:D

 

That's worth knowing. I wanted to conquer the avocado stone as I'd never managed to grow one, so, now I have one, I just keep trying, and now have 4. Even though the glasses I start them off in look particularly unattractive on the window ledge!

 

Know what you mean Liz.

If its there we need to grow it to find out what it does in a pot.
And sometimes we get a pleasant surprise.